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How to make CD with a startup program

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by lathe 1 view

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I have a powerpoint presentation and I wand to start the presentation as I insert the CD to the drive.

How can I make a startup program in a CD ?

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by lathe

I'm sorry I dont want to spend money for that, as we all are technical people, I know we can do it buy making autorun.inf file on the root of CD, but I don't know what are the parameters to give in it, that is what I'm looking for, thanks.

by dklippert

You might want to use Notepad to take a look at the autorun.inf file on any CD-ROM that uses autorun for an example.
FILENAME.EXE can name any executable to be run when the CD is inserted.
[autorun]
open=filename.exe
icon=filename.ico

If you can be sure that the user has PowerPoint installed, you can use:

[autorun]
shellexecute=filename.pps

(There are no spaces in the following URLs)
Here is the original MS article that was pulled. It can be used to create an autorun CD that includes the PowerPoint viewer.

http://www.indezine.com/products/powerpoint/addin/ppviewtechnote.pdf
Also
http://www.utmb.edu/oto/HowTo.dir/CD-slides.html

Here are a couple more references
http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/pctech/content/solutions/oe1815a.htm

http://www.stormgate.com/shazron/shellx.htm

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